One of the highlights of this year’s Academy Awards (apart from Birdman taking Best Picture, JK Simmons winning Best Supporting Actor and Eddie Redmayne deservedly winning Best Actor) was the incredibly trippy, outrageous and all out fun Everything is Awesome performance from Tegan and Sara & The Lonely Island.
I’ve watched this at least 20 times by now.
In case the video is blocked in your office or country or you have an irrational hate for Youtube, here’s a bunch of GIFs.
The best part of the performance was when dancers left the stage to gift these awesome Oscar statuettes to Hollywood’s best dressed who seemed to be visibly delighted at getting a LEGO Oscar.
That’s a very happy Oprah.
If you think the LEGO Oscar Statuettes look familiar, you may remember this tweet from Phil Lord when news broke that the Academy had not even nominated The LEGO Movie for Best Animated Feature.
It’s okay. Made my own! pic.twitter.com/kgyu1GRHGR
— philip lord (@philiplord) January 15, 2015
How do you make your own LEGO Oscar Statuette? Nathan Sawaya, the brick artist shared this quick time lapse on his Youtube page showing the construction process of one Oscar Statuette.
Unless you’ve got superhuman senses, making sense of that video to make a replica Oscar Statuette might be a little difficult.
In steps Redditor IVIuggle from r/lego who went through the effort of painstakingly studying the clips and managed to not only reverse engineer the design but also produced instructions on LDD (LEGO Digital Designer).
To download the IVIuggle’s LDD instructions, just click on this Dropbox link and pop it into LDD.
In case you’re unfamiliar with LDD, another Redditor, yorgle, uploaded PDF instructions which you can grab here.
UPDATE: Yorgle has produced an updated version (V2)of the PDF instructions which you can download here. Improvements include extra parts to Oscar’s right hand and a change of the colour to dark grey for legibility. Thanks Yorgle, you’re a champ!
It looks like a fairly simple and sturdy build and can’t wait to rummage through my parts to see if I can make my very own Oscar statuette, in honour of what I think should’ve been 2014’s Best Animated Feature.
The end result should look like this
Theodore Lerman says
Second try, Yorgle’s pdf file has some clipped pages. Would be nice if they could be fixed??
Theodore Lerman says
The Oscar Yorgle pdf has some clipped pages. Hopefully these can be fixed.
Jay says
Oh! It’s been awhile but I’ll try to check in with the original designer to see if any changes can be made.
Jose says
Is the statue the same size as the one given at the oscars?
Jay says
It should be, yes!
Brad says
The pdf instructions are pretty useless for stacking the segments after the first two are stacked. It shows how to build the segments, but after that it just shows the same image as the one where you put the feet on the base, and nothing new above that.
Fiona says
Fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing – I’m definitely going to make one! I wonder if there are enough gold brick shapes to make this? Also, the statue is now on Lego Ideas: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/96037